Abstract
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2019 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI) |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 1-6 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789899843493 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781728115528 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Event | 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies - Coimbra Business School - Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de Coimbra, CBS-ISCAC, Coimbra, Portugal Duration: 19 Jun 2019 → 22 Jun 2019 Conference number: 14 http://www.cisti.eu/index.php?utm_source=researchbib&lang=en |
Conference
| Conference | 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies |
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| Abbreviated title | CISTI |
| Country | Portugal |
| City | Coimbra |
| Period | 19/06/19 → 22/06/19 |
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Developing an Open Writing Aid for Non-Native Speakers of English : An Ontology-Based Approach. / Sanjurjo-González, Hugo; Alaiz-Moretón, Héctor; Ramón, Noelia; Labrador, Belén; García, Isaías.
2019 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI). IEEE, 2019. p. 1-6.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
TY - GEN
T1 - Developing an Open Writing Aid for Non-Native Speakers of English
T2 - An Ontology-Based Approach
AU - Sanjurjo-González, Hugo
AU - Alaiz-Moretón, Héctor
AU - Ramón, Noelia
AU - Labrador, Belén
AU - García, Isaías
N1 - Also published with an ISSN 2166-0727
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - In today's globalised world where there is a growing need for international communication, non-native speakers (NNS) from a wide range of professional fields are increasingly called upon to write specialised texts in English. More often than not, however, the linguistic competence required to do so is well beyond that of the majority of NNS. While software applications can serve to assist NNS in their English writing tasks, most of the applications available are designed for users of English for general purposes as opposed to English for professional purposes. Therefore, these applications lack the specific vocabulary, style guidelines and common structures required in more specialised documents. Necessary modifications to meet the needs of English for professional purposes tend to be viewed as representing an overly complex and expensive task. To overcome these challenges, we present a software called O-WEAA (Ontology-Writing English Assistant Architecture) which makes use of an ontology that represents the knowledge which, according to our formalisation, is required to write most types of specialised professional documents in the English language. Our formalisation of the required knowledge is based on an exhaustive linguistic analysis of several written genres. The proposed software is composed of two parts: i) a web application named Acquisition Interface Module, which allows experts to populate the ontology with new data and ii) a user-friendly, general web interface named Writing Assistant Interface Module which guides the user throughout the writing process of the English document in the specific domain described in the ontology.
AB - In today's globalised world where there is a growing need for international communication, non-native speakers (NNS) from a wide range of professional fields are increasingly called upon to write specialised texts in English. More often than not, however, the linguistic competence required to do so is well beyond that of the majority of NNS. While software applications can serve to assist NNS in their English writing tasks, most of the applications available are designed for users of English for general purposes as opposed to English for professional purposes. Therefore, these applications lack the specific vocabulary, style guidelines and common structures required in more specialised documents. Necessary modifications to meet the needs of English for professional purposes tend to be viewed as representing an overly complex and expensive task. To overcome these challenges, we present a software called O-WEAA (Ontology-Writing English Assistant Architecture) which makes use of an ontology that represents the knowledge which, according to our formalisation, is required to write most types of specialised professional documents in the English language. Our formalisation of the required knowledge is based on an exhaustive linguistic analysis of several written genres. The proposed software is composed of two parts: i) a web application named Acquisition Interface Module, which allows experts to populate the ontology with new data and ii) a user-friendly, general web interface named Writing Assistant Interface Module which guides the user throughout the writing process of the English document in the specific domain described in the ontology.
KW - Knowledge Acquisition
KW - Knowledge Representation
KW - Corpus Linguistics
KW - Ontology Classification and Retrieval
KW - Natural Language Processing
UR - http://www.cisti.eu/index.php?utm_source=researchbib&lang=en
U2 - 10.23919/CISTI.2019.8760895
DO - 10.23919/CISTI.2019.8760895
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781728115528
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - 2019 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI)
PB - IEEE
ER -